Karnataka Examination Authority v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Rules of the game cannot be changed midway; alteration of eligibility criteria after commencement of recruitment; equivalence of M.Tech VLSI Design & Embedded Systems to Electronics; Assistant Professor recruitment, Collegiate Education, KEA as Selection Authority; KSAT orders confirmed; costs on implementing agency set aside; Articles 14 and 16 arbitrariness; legitimate expectation; benchmarks before commencement or stage; no indefeasible right to appointment from select list; administrative instructions filling gaps in Rules; K. Manjusree (2008) 3 SCC 512; State of Haryana v. Subash Chander Marwaha (1974) 3 SCC 220; Santosh Kumar Tripathi (2009) 14 SCC 210; Writ Petition (S-KSAT), Karnataka HC, 2025.
What did the court decide?
W.P. No.2901/2024 (Yogesh B.N.) dismissed; W.P. Nos.2899/2024, 2093/2024 and 8884/2024 (KEA) allowed-in-part; costs imposed on the KEA in Application Nos.1715/2023 and 1161/2023 set aside; orders of the Tribunal in Application Nos.1715/2023, 1161/2023 and 3051/2023 confirmed; no order as to costs.